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Poetry Friday, Week 4: This Morning and Winners

1/28/2022

 
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It's our fourth Friday of the year. Wow!
 Irene at Live Your Poem has the round up for us this week.

I like writing my posts on Thursday and posting early.  Yesterday, I was coming up empty and went to bed without a post. 


This morning gifted me with one as I was making tea

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morning moon
side smile of wolf pup
​sings the wind
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©2022, jone rush macculloch

Calendar Winners

Congrats Mary Lee Hahn and Bridget Magee! Mary Lee, will send out today. Bridget, I need your address.

Poetry Friday, Week 3: Student Poetry

1/20/2022

 
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. Happy Friday. Happy poetry. ​Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference. Tabatha shares a fabulous puzzle  poem while rounding us all up.

​Heidi from the Inklings  suggested that we using the “The Lost Lagoon” by Mohawk poet, Emily Pauline Johnson (d. 1913) “to build your own poem FOR CHILDREN about a treasured place that you return to again and again (geographical or metaphorical).”
#PoetryPals challenges us to write a poem inspired by something overheard.
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Last Friday, I taught fifth grade. It was a day of eleven students (thank you, surge). These fifth graders were first graders the year I retired. After students write a draft, I have them meet with me to put on Padlet which is an opportunity for a mini-revision.

Enrique brought me his poem, saying he didn't think it very good. It was a perfect opportunity to share with him and the class my interaction with Janet Wong regarding my "Zoom" poem and how it was revised to what appears in the book.  As teachers sharing our little moments of revisions in own writing helps students to see that revision is a part of the process.

Made with Padlet

Win a 2022  Calendar

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I have a couple calendars left and would love to find them homes.
When you comment, you will be entered into a contest.

Poetry Friday, Week 2: Preparing to Teach a Lesson

1/14/2022

 
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It's early Friday on the west coast. I am heading into a fifth grade classroom and get to teach poetry today.
 Mary Lee at A(nother) Year of Reading is hosting Poetry Friday. I am going to have to share her poem "What Does a Pomegranate Know" with my fifth graders today as I am using the prompt, "What Does a [your subject] Know?" ​ I have been thinking of this prompt since reading an earlier version of Mary Lee's poem

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>I've been thinking about this book of late.  Joyce Sidman has a perfect mentor text,
"What Do Trees Know?

Michelle H. Barnes at Today's Little Ditty, interviewed her here and created a Deeper Thinking Poem Challenge.

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In 2015, I wrote:
​WHAT DOES THE RAIN KNOW?
                                   by Jone Rush MacCulloch 

                              What does the rain know?
                                   Sponge clouds gathering moisture
                                   School children running between raindrops
                                   The pop-up gardens of umbrellas.

                              What does the rain know?
                                   The wind whispering secrets
                                   School children with open mouths catching raindrops
                                   The beginning and end of rainbows.
Today I will be sharing this poem, two ways to do it with students. I'll show them my notebook wonderings.  One way focuses on the senses the other focuses on strong verbs.  I hopefully will get to confer with students and revise with them as we load them to Padlet which I will share next week.
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Poetry Friday, Week 1: One Little Word

1/7/2022

 
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It's the first Friday of the new year and 7 Carol at Beyond LiteracyLink is hosting us all.
Do you want some poetry challenges to start the year?

Heidi from the Inklings  suggested that we using the “The Lost Lagoon” by Mohawk poet, Emily Pauline Johnson (d. 1913) “to build your own poem FOR CHILDREN about a treasured place that you return to again and again (geographical or metaphorical).”
#PoetryPals challenges us to write a poem inspired by something overheard.
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Last year, my One Little Word was FLOURISH.
It was a good word, helping me to thrive in  my writing and in my art play by  writing and art classes.

wandering
divergent paths
in wonder

WONDER is my 2022 OLW.  It arrived late last year.  
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Poetry Friday, Week 51: For Christmas Eve

12/23/2021

 
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How can it be Christmas Eve already?  This Friday Buffy at Buffy Silverman is hosting us. She's sharing her poetry gift from her Winter Swap and her poetic response.

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one candle flickers
the light shines in the darkness
while we wait with hope

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For those of you, who celebrate, Merry Christmas.

Poetry Friday, Week 50: Ring the Bells, The Round Up is Here Plus Winter Poetry Swap Goodness

12/16/2021

 
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Welcome.  I am so happy to be hosting today.  I am looking forward to reading all the fabulous posts that our community shares. 
Did you write a Cento poem for the Inklings?
Did you write to the #PoetryPals prompt about that includes bells?

​Do you have happy news or the sharing of poems or poets.  No matter what, you are welcomed here.

The #PoetryPals challenge this month is  writing a poem about bells. It instantly made me think of a couple of bell poem ideas.  However, the one that most resonated with me was one from my childhood.  It must have been when I was in third or fourth grade.  Late at night I heard the jingling of sleigh bells from outside when I was supposed to be asleep.  It was most likely Christmas Eve.  I grew up in a house that until seventh grade, the tree (one from a SoCal tree lot) was not put up until after my brother and I went to bed on Christmas Eve when Santa brought it and the presents.
I recently wrote what I call the “Double Golden Shovel” for my winter poetry swap person using two of their poetry lines to bookend the lines. I borrowed some words from the poems that spoke to me.
This week, I found Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, The Bells to select lines from. Confession: I slightly altered two of the words for a better fit in the lines.


From the poem, The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe
On Christmas Eve
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To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
By the side of the pale-faced moon

To wake at midnight by
the faint jingling and tinkling of bells. The
tintinnabulation from the rooftop out-side
that tells me of Santa’s arrival. His boots of 
so much magic-the secret for walking in silence. The
musically clanging and twanging of reindeer, careful not to disturb pale-faced
Well tucked-in dreamers who slumber in Runic rhyme by the moon.
©Jone Rush MacCulloch ​

Winter Poem Swap

I was so fortunate to get Linda Baie as my swap part for winter. She knows me well.  I can't wait to dig into the books. I adore Alligator Pie and it will go into my sub bag. And her poem is so thoughtful.

What Jone Knows

A starfish to send home.
Calm ripples of the sea.
Pine needle drips reflect.

Sea glass walk for you and me.

Her postcards send us smiles  

when the winter closes in.
Poetry fills her plate.
Each tree becomes a friend.

 The photos that she shares
fill us weekly with a ploy.
She adds no words for them
only Wordless Wednesday joy.

Jone’s grateful heart is evident.
She lives her life as one content. 

​
 Linda Baie ©



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Last Call to Join the New Year Poetry Postcards Event

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Won't you join us? We have about 10 at the party so far and there's room for more. Sign up for the 2022 New Year Postcard Exchange.  Send five, send ten or send to all.

Did you know there are 15 days until 2021 ends? Woohoo! Let's celebrate the New Year with a New Year Postcard? In Japan, it’s called Nengajo, a Japanese custom of ushering in the new year.

​How It Works:
  • Choose to send five, ten postcards.
  • Create a postcard:  you can buy a postcard and write a poem on the other side or you can create one postcard to send to everyone (I use Walgreens or Zazzle)
  • Once you get the names, send by February 1, 2022 (beginning of Chinese New Years)
  • If you choose, you can work in the Chinese animal for 2022: The year of the Tiger. It is not required.
SIGN UP HERE

Poetry Friday, Week 49: A Cento for Solstice and a Call for the New Year Poetry Postcard Exchange

12/10/2021

 
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Cathy at Merely Day by Day is hosting us and thanking the Poetry Friday community.  So glad you are in the community, Cathy.

Molly Hogan of The Inklings, suggested for the December challenge, that we try the cento poem/patchwork poem. 

# PoetryPals the December challenge is to write a poem about bells.



After reading MaryLee's cento last week and Carol Varsolana's cento this week, I am jumping in with one about winter's arrival.
Did you know that the CENTO is an historic poetic form, relying  entirely on other poets’ published words?  According to  Linda Black, Ausonius (c310 – c395) was the Roman originator of the form.

For mine, I researched poems about the winter solstice.


One Solstice

When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire  
which burns the spark of luminous goodness

​when I stare at paper or into silences 

the dark, too, blooms and sings,

The world appears very large, very round now
extending far as the moon


A quiet light, and then not even that. 
all the singing is in the tops of the trees

which shook in the wind of night  
to drive the dark away

One winter I lived north, alone 

©jone rush macculloch, 2021

Sources for One Solstice:

LITTLE GIDDING BY T.S. ELIOT        
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A WINTER SOLSTICE PRAYER BY EDWARD HAYS 
SNOW BY NAOMI SHIHAB NYE 
TO KNOW THE DARK BY WENDELL BERRY 
WINTER SOLSTICE BY HILDA MORLEY    
AN OLD MAN’S WINTER NIGHT BY ROBERT FROST  
WHITE-EYES BY MARY OLIVER     
THE COLD EARTH SLEPT BELOW BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
THE SHORTEST DAY BY SUSAN COOPER   
THE WORLD BY JENNIFER CHANG      

2022 New Year Poetry Postcard Exchange

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Won't you join us? We have about 10 at the party so far and there's room for more. Sign up for the 2022 New Year Postcard Exchange.  Send five, send ten or send to all.

Did you know there are 22 days until 2021 ends? Woohoo! Let's celebrate the New Year with a New Year Postcard? In Japan, it’s called Nengajo, a Japanese custom of ushering in the new year.

​How It Works:
  • Choose to send five, ten postcards.
  • Create a postcard:  you can buy a postcard and write a poem on the other side or you can create one postcard to send to everyone (I use Walgreens or Zazzle)
  • Once you get the names, send by February 1, 2022 (beginning of Chinese New Years)
  • If you choose, you can work in the Chinese animal for 2022: The year of the Tiger. It is not required.
SIGN UP HERE

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A shout out to this book, HOP TO IT  edited by Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell has won the Kids' Book Choice Awards.
​I love this book.

Next week, the Poetry Friday Party is here! I'm hosting. Bring your bells and centos and winter solstice greetings!

Poetry Friday, Week 48: 2022 New Year Poetry Postcard Exchange

12/3/2021

 
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Please head over to  Michelle at Michelle Kogan to see other poetry posts. Plus Michelle shares her gifts of art.

December
the long and short of it
year passes

2022 New Year Poetry Postcard Exchange

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It's time. Sign up for the 2022 New Year Postcard Exchange.  Send five, send ten or send to all.

Did you know there are 29 days until 2021 ends? Woohoo! Let's celebrate the New Year with a New Year Postcard? In Japan, it’s called Nengajo, a Japanese custom of ushering in the new year.

​How It Works:
  • Choose to send five, ten postcards.
  • Create a postcard:  you can buy a postcard and write a poem on the other side or you can create one postcard to send to everyone (I use Walgreens or Zazzle)
  • Once you get the names, send by February 1, 2022 (beginning of Chinese New Years)
  • If you choose, you can work in the Chinese animal for 2022: The year of the Tiger. It is not required.

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I have a few 2022 Calendars for sale, $15.00 (includes shipping ).  
If interested, please fill out this FORM.

Poetry Friday, Week 44, November #poetrypals Challenge and More

11/26/2021

 
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Ruth at there is no such thing as a God-forsaken town is hosting us and old school style this morning.  Her Ode to Haiti in Autumn is beautiful and poignant with all that is happening in Haiti right now.  I pray for peace in Haiti.

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 The Poetry Sisters invited us to  join their challenge for the month of November! Writing an Ode to Autumn. An ode is a lyrical poem, a way of marking an occasion with a song. Whether you choose an irregular ode with no set pattern or rhyme, or the ten-line, three-to-five stanza famed by Homer himself, we hope you’ll join us in singing in the season of leaf-fall and pie, and sharing on November 26th in a blog post and/or on social media with the tag #PoetryPals. 

Well, sometimes I miss little details, like this was to be an ode for autumn, not November.  Maybe it's because my grandfather always referred to November as the darkest month. And my father agreed with him as Grandfather Mac died in November and my mother, pregnant with my brother was  hospitalized with non-paralytic polio. So maybe I was unconsciously look for a way to lift up and light up November. I begin this month with the lighting of white twinkle lights outside.  My flameless candles are set to flicker on at sunset (how cool is it that flameless candles can be programmed?)

I've been keeping up with my #gratiku note booking.  Last week, I read through my blog to mine words.


​November Ode
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Later sunrises
Gunpowder grey skies
Pink threading the clouds
Wind blustering more
Leaves and letting go

Earlier sunsets
Darkness and candles
Warming by a fire
Family gatherings
November; autumn's hug

© jone rush macculloch


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It's time. Sign up for the 2022 New Year Postcard Exchange.  Send five, send ten or send to all.

Did you know there are 36 days until 2021 ends? Woohoo! Let's celebrate the New Year with a New Year Postcard? In Japan, it’s called Nengajo, a Japanese custom of ushering in the new year.

​How It Works:
  • Choose to send five, ten postcards.
  • Create a postcard:  you can buy a postcard and write a poem on the other side or you can create one postcard to send to everyone (I use Walgreens or Zazzle)
  • Once you get the names, send by February 1, 2022 (beginning of Chinese New Years)
  • If you choose, you can work in the Chinese animal for 2022: The year of the Tiger. It is not required.

Would You Like?

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I am very pleased with the 2022 calendar.

For the first time, I'm offering my small poems
and photos calendar for sale.
It's $15.00 including shipping.  

If you would like one, send me an email at macrush53 at yahoo (dot) com.

​I have a limited run for sale.

Poetry Friday, Week 43: Call for New Year Poetry Postcards

11/19/2021

 
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Thanks to  Carol at Beyond LiteracyLink for hosting the round up.  Her autumn gallery is stunning as usual.

And it's a busy weekend for many who are attending NCTE!

The winners of GOOD LUCK GOLD AND MORE.  Lucky winners have books winging their way to them.
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Sign up for the 2022 Poetry Postcard Exchange
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I am thinking about the November challenge to write an ode to November. I went through old posts looking for words.
#gratiku, Day 19.

word mining
old blog post treasures
​recycle

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It's time. Sign up for the 2022 New Year Postcard Exchange.  Send five, send ten or send to all.

Did you know there are 43 days until 2021 ends? Woohoo! Let's celebrate the New Year with a New Year Postcard? In Japan, it’s called Nengajo, a Japanese custom of ushering in the new year.

​How It Works:
  • Choose to send five, ten postcards.
  • Create a postcard:  you can buy a postcard and write a poem on the other side or you can create one postcard to send to everyone (I use Walgreens or Zazzle)
  • Once you get the names, send by February 1, 2022 (beginning of Chinese New Years)
  • If you choose, you can work in the Chinese animal for 2022: The year of the Tiger. It is not required.


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